Reed New Zealand goes live with IBS Bookmaster

News & Events 2006-07-17

Reed New Zealand, a division of the Reed Elsevier Group and one of New Zealand's largest publishing companies, went live with IBS Bookmaster on 29th of May 2006.

“Prior to implementing IBS Bookmaster, Reed New Zealand had an out-of-date legacy system that had a series of work around solutions and which could not be fully supported in the future,” explained David O’Brien, Managing Director of Harcourt Education Australia and Reed New Zealand, “We needed to implement an ERP system in both Australia and New Zealand that would allow us to harmonize procedures and the way things are done across the two divisions”.

“IBS Bookmaster was chosen as the preferred solution because it is a good system and is the industry standard,” added David.

Reed New Zealand and Harcourt Australia are both separate divisions, servicing different markets and different customers, and each will run on a separate database of IBS Bookmaster.

Although the two divisions operate independently of each other the benefit David sees of having both on the same ERP system is that they will be able to standardize things such as reporting and financials.

“Although they are two separate companies, both Reed New Zealand and Harcourt report together to Reed Elsevier,” said David, “having one system not only makes the reporting simpler, there is also an opportunity to cross utilize staff from the two divisions. If an ‘end of month’ needs to be run and we are short-staffed in New Zealand we can easily get someone to assist from Australia and vice versa.”

Reed New Zealand has just completed phase one of their implementation, which included implementing the base package. The early efficiencies gained from having an integrated system have been a saving in processing time and improved accuracy.

Phase two will see Reed New Zealand implement the Royalties, Editorial and Book Production and Business Intelligence modules. “I expect that the Business Intelligence module will be very beneficial in terms of analysis and having the ability to mine and display data in different formats,” explained David, “while Editorial and Book Production will allow us to compare investments in producing titles on a standard basis across the two companies.”

“The biggest benefit to us from implementing IBS Bookmaster,” said David, “is that we will be able to harmonize procedures and have a consistent chart of accounts for both companies.”

“In terms of analysis and reports, where before we were comparing data from two different systems, we will now have a single, consistent approach to account classification, reporting and thus analysis,” added David.

Harcourt Australia will go live with IBS Bookmaster in September.

For more information, please contact:

David O’Brien, Managing Director, Harcourt Education Australia and Reed New Zealand Tel: + 61 3 9245 7111 david.O'brien@harcourteducation.com.au

Staffan Wensing, MD, IBS Australia Mobile: +61 414 559 790 Staffan.wensing@ibsaustralia.com

Steve Hall, International Sales Manager, IBS Australia Tel: +61 2 9761 9222 Steve.hall@ibsaustralia.com

Edith Crnkovich, Marketing Manager, IBS Australia Tel: +61 2 9761 9222 edith.crnkovich@ibsaustralia.com

IBS is a world-leading provider of automated solutions for publishers and book distributors with editorial and production, royalties, subscriptions, e-commerce, warehouse management, financials and business intelligence key components. IBS delivers measurable value through its industry-specific software, services and hardware offerings. Cambridge University Press, Gyldendal/NBC, HarperCollins, Harvard University Press, LexisNexis, McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education and Penguin Books are among IBS’ 5,000 customers in 40 countries.

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